When our country is home to just 5% of the world’s population but represents 25% of those incarcerated — most of them poor Black and Brown men and women — it is indisputable that the criminal justice system is broken.
Here in Cook County, where an appalling number of wrongful convictions — some based on police torture — have been uncovered, and where rampant courtroom misconduct was revealed decades ago in the federal Operation Greylord investigation, we’re no strangers to injustice and corruption.
